Two Active Directory Bugs Lead to Easy Windows Domain Takeover

Microsoft is urging customers to patch two Active Directory domain controller bugs after a PoC tool was publicly released on Dec. 12.

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YT Mob Announces It Is "Taking a Break" From World Cup Racing 14

All great things must end, it's time to pause the chapter with @The YT Mob as you know it. Over the years we've celebrated success with the World's best, developed #youngtalent, and shared plenty of #goodtimes!

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Coal Miners Union to Joe Manchin: Stop Sucking

Outside Congressional Republicans and dirty energy CEOs, basically everyone is mad at Sen. Joe Manchin for announcing he was a “no” on the Build Back Better Act. That includes coal miners.

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How is Zero Trust Evolving to be More Continuous in Verifying Trust?

Question: How is Zero Trust evolving to be more continuous in nature in verifying trust?

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Missouri Ditches Covid-19 Measures After Court Ruling, Cease-And-Desist from Attorney General

Multiple health departments in Missouri have abandoned most or all of their covid-19 tracking and prevention work after a recent court ruling stripped state and local public health agencies of their powers to establish disease prevention measures. On Dec.

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Cox discloses data breach after hacker impersonates support agent

Cox Communications has disclosed a data breach after a hacker impersonated a support agent to gain access to customers' personal information.

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IT pros see zero trust as a key element of security strategy

A new survey of over 1,000 IT security professionals finds that 75 percent of organizations recognize zero trust as being important to bolstering their overall cybersecurity posture.

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Willfully unvaccinated should pay 100% of COVID hospital bills, lawmaker says

People who choose to remain unvaccinated and subsequently become severely ill with COVID-19 should be responsible for paying the entirety of their hospital bills out of pocket, according to Illinois Representative Jonathan Carroll.

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Benchmarks: Huge AI And Gaming Gains For Next-Gen Android Flagships

Qualcomm recently announced a new flagship mobile chipset for next-gen Android devices, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which also kicks off a rebrand of the Snapdragon platform.

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The Problem With Earth’s Striking New ‘Black Box’

A monolithic data storage site and art installation called “Earth’s Black Box” is slated for construction in Australia. Akin to a flight recorder, the device is meant to chronicle Earth’s journey toward environmental destruction, but it likely won’t have much of an impact.

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Debunking

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Kevin Feige Says Charlie Cox Is the MCU's Daredevil, But What Does That Mean?

The upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home tells the story of how Peter Parker and Doctor Strange accidentally mess up their reality by breaking open the multiverse.

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Quantum processor swapped in for a neural network

It's become increasingly clear that quantum computers won't have a single moment when they become clearly superior to classical hardware. Instead, we're likely to see them becoming useful for a narrow set of problems and then gradually expand out from there to an increasing range of computations.

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Microsoft reverses Windows 11's annoying default browser setting changes

Microsoft has reversed a Windows 11 design change that made it highly annoying to change the default browser used by the operating system. Previously, web browsers could configure themselves as the default browser by modifying the Windows Registry.

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Judge rejects Apple’s arguments for delaying ordered iOS App Store changes

In September, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple must allow iOS developers to direct users to external content-purchasing mechanisms outside of the App Store's built-in In-App Purchases.

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Communication with Mars rover has been restored after multi-week blackout

Out of this world: The Perseverance rover has been mapping the Martian landscape and analyzing the planet's makeup since landing in February 2021. After a pause in communications that lasted several weeks, the rover is once again transmitting data back to NASA scientists and engineers.

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Upcoming HTC Vive Flow VR Headset Leaks Ahead of Launch

HTC is said to be launching a new VR headset within the next couple days and thanks to @evleaks we now have a pretty good idea as to what to expect.

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Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is now available as a Microsoft Store app

In context: Microsoft's handy "Windows Subsystem for Linux" (WSL) tool has been available in some capacity for years now. WSL allows users to run a full Linux environment of their choosing -- and your favorite Linux utilities and software -- directly inside Windows.

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How to Watch William Shatner Boldly Go Where No Shatner Has Gone Before

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, is scheduled to perform its second crewed suborbital flight on Wednesday morning. William Shatner is coming along for the ride, which is only fitting for the actor who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek. Here’s how you can watch the launch.

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Santa Cruz Bikes owner buys GT/Cannondale owner for $810million

The acquisition of Dorel Industries’ bike division makes Pon Holdings probably the biggest bike company in the world. We don’t often cover industry news on mbr but we think this deal was significant enough to warrant some Joe/Josephine Public attention.

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New Nobel Prizes

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Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Figuring Out How We Can Feel Pressure and Heat

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their research on temperature and touch receptors. Their discoveries both contributed to what we know about the way our bodies take in sensory information from the world and make sense of it.

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Facebook Profits From Showing Teens Unethical 'Abortion Reversal' Ads

Facebook served dangerous “abortion reversal” ads viewed 18.4 million times since January 2020, according to a new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

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Vaccine Research

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REvil’s Back; Coder Fat-fingered Away Its Decryptor Key

How did Kaseya get a universal decryptor after a mind-bogglingly big ransomware attack? A REvil coder misclicked, generated & issued it, and “That’s how we sh*t ourselves.”

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Qualcomm Reportedly Preps Snapdragon SM6375 5G SoC For Mid-Range 144Hz Gaming Phones

The next major stop on Qualcomm’s SoC train is likely to be the flagship Snapdragon 898, which is the rumored successor to the highly popular Snapdragon 888/888+. However, that’s not all that the chip firm has in its bag of tricks.

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Department of Defense interested in nuclear propulsion system for small spacecraft

What just happened? The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is asking private-sector companies to submit proposals for advanced nuclear propulsion technologies that could be used to power future DoD missions in space.

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Epic files appeal over last week's Apple antitrust ruling

As last week closed, an important ruling was published by US District Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers, after considering the contentious Epic Games lawsuit against Apple.

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Fusion energy nears reality thanks to an ultra-powerful magnet

Fusion energy just had its second breakthrough in as many months.

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Microsoft opens up about Windows 11 on Apple M1 chips

It can hardly have escaped your attention that Windows 11 is just around the corner. If you have been following the news about the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, you'll be only too aware of the confusion surrounding hardware requirements, the need for TPM 2.0 in particular.

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Intel, Qualcomm win deal to design 7nm silicon for US defense agencies

The United States' National Security Technology Accelerator (NXTA) has picked Qualcomm and Intel to help it develop and construct chips for use by the nation’s military.

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Biden: Facebook and other platforms are ‘killing people’ with vaccine misinformation

Joe Biden said that Facebook and other social media platforms are “killing people” by allowing misinformation about COVID-19 to spread on their platforms.

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Starlink satellite broadband to improve ping time to sub-20ms

HEXUS reported upon the laser crosslink upgrades to the Starlink satellite constellation back in January this year. That upgrade meant that Starlink subscribers could enjoy better coverage and reliability, with future connections touted to be as fast as 10Gbps.

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Security leaders struggle to guard against data loss

A new study from risk protection platform SafeGuard Cyber shows cybersecurity leaders understand what is needed for successful digital risk protection, but they are still struggling to provide it.

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What Is the Most Damaging Conspiracy Theory in History?

Not every conspiracy theory is de facto bad. Vast forces really are colluding against us, with varying degrees of intent. It is when these forces are misidentified—when blame is pinned on people equally helpless, or people who are totally made up—that things can spin out of control.

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Qualcomm Just Released a Smartphone for Some Reason

Qualcomm makes the chips found in practically every Android phone, but today the company is stepping away from its usual role. With some help from Asus, Qualcomm is announcing the first phone of its own.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 will get Nvidia DLSS and more online content next week

Bottom line: There are possibly millions of screenshots of RDR2's beautiful wild west out there, and Rockstar's next week update will give players yet another reason to get busy: Nvidia DLSS.

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Many Mobile Apps Intentionally Using Insecure Connections for Sending Data

A new analysis of iOS and Android apps released to Apple's and Google's app stores over the past five years found many to be deliberately breaking HTTPS protections.

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Colorful and Nvidia are opening the world's first GPU museum

What just happened? The GPU has a long history. So long, in fact, that it could fill a museum. Such a fantastical idea has now become a reality, with Chinese hardware manufacturer Colorful announcing the world’s first GPU History Museum in partnership with Nvidia.

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New 5G and satellite technologies offer more choices for home broadband

Millions of people in the US have no home broadband or a really poor, pricey form of it at a time when being online has become almost as essential as having clean running water.

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J.J. Abrams Turns Into Captain Obvious, Admits The ‘Star Wars’ Sequel Trilogy Should’ve Had A ‘Plan’

Ah, the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Simpler times. The surreal discourse surrounding Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, is actually one of the last things I remember from the Before Time, a.k.a the world before the pandemic. That, and Brad Pitt/Parasite taking home Academy Awards.

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Qualcomm Shows Off Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows on Arm Development

Alongside today’s Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 SoC announcement, Qualcomm is also unveiling a new Windows 10-focused development kit.

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China crypto crackdown sees mining businesses end operations, crashes Bitcoin price

What just happened? It’s starting to look as if the meteoric rise Bitcoin has enjoyed since the end of last year is coming to an end. The crypto’s price has tumbled by around 50% since mid-April, a decline that’s been exacerbated by top cryptocurrency miners, including HashCow and BTC.

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Latest Data Suggests Apple Has Crushed Facebook’s Data Mining Of iOS Users

The recent feud between Apple and Facebook has been well documented. The companies have been at odd for years, but tensions between the two came to a head most recently when Apple detailed its newest privacy guidelines at WWDC 2020.

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EFF and DuckDuckGo's new partnership is about enhancing secure browsing and protecting user information on the web

Although most web browsers now automatically switch you to the secure HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) version of a website if you try to go to a non-secure HTTP address, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) offers another option.

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Democrats to introduce bill to expand Supreme Court from 9 to 13 justices

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation Thursday to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, alongside progressive activists pushing to transform the high court.

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Netflix is working on a live-action Gundam movie

A live-action Gundam movie has been in the pipeline for several years, and it has taken a giant step closer to a screen near you. Netflix has snagged the worldwide rights to the film, except in China, where Legendary Pictures will release it in theaters.

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The Morning After: Even NASA’s Mars drone needs software updates

Anyone who has ever brought a drone knows that after it comes out of the box, the first thing you do is install a ton of software updates. It turns out that things work similarly when you’re NASA, and the drone is a helicopter preparing to take flight on Mars, 174 million miles away from you.

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ISS Vaccine

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The FCC Wants You To Use Its Speed Test App to Figure Out Where Internet Is Bad

The Federal Communications Commission is encouraging folks to use its internet speed test app, available for free across the country to anyone with an Android or iOS device, so it can collect more accurate internet speed data for its broadband deployment efforts.

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